Tom Malinowski

Tom Malinowski (23 September 1965-) was Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 3 April 2014 to 20 January 2017, succeeding Michael Posner and preceding Virginia L. Bennett.

Biography
Tom Malinowski was born in Slupsk, Poland in 1965, and his family immigrated to the United States when he was six. He was raised in Princeton, New Jersey, and he worked in the offices of US Senator Bill Bradley and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He worked in Bill Clinton's White House during the 1990s, and he became the Washington DC director for Human Rights Watch in 2001, serving until 2014. That year, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor by President Barack Obama, serving until 2017. In 2018, he ran for New Jersey's 7th district in the US House of Representatives as the Democratic nominee, hoping to gain the support of the energized moderate constituents who found themselves inadequately represented by the incumbent Republican Leonard Lance (who periodically shifted to the right because of Tea Party pressure, but also to the left because of his constituents).